Hi, Shawn.

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997 08:21:07 -0800, Shawn Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
|Does anyone know how you would go about building an environment where
|you are displaying information to a screen every 'n' seconds, but also
|able to accept input from the user.

Use FCONTROL mode 4 to set a timeout on the FREAD waiting for the user
input.  When the read times out, then you will get a zero length return
which you can interpret as no data input.  If the length of data read is
non-zero, then you have input from the user.  Be aware that (at least when
I last coded something like this) if the user is allowed to type multiple
characters on the read, and the FREAD times out before the user presses
return, the data typed is discarded.  In other words, partial reads don't
occur.

It's not too difficult, as I recall and I hope this helps.
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